I need help from a genius

[wufwugy]

I don't get what you mean really but here is an asnwer. If you can spot a pattern in something and that pattern is in someway useful then being able to spot that pattern is a bonus over those who can't spot it because then you only have to determine the use of it, which if you spot more patterns in things you become better at too.

I'm wondering about the different categories of pattern types. Say somebody in a social situation goes from calm to upset for non-obvious reasons. I'm generally good at recognizing the patterns that can help explain why. What I'm not good at is recognizing the kinds of patterns relevant for the example in the OP.

[Savy]

I'm wondering about the different categories of pattern types. Say somebody in a social situation goes from calm to upset for non-obvious reasons. I'm generally good at recognizing the patterns that can help explain why. What I'm not good at is recognizing the kinds of patterns relevant for the example in the OP.

I'm not sure how it works. I'd somewhat group the two together but as you say there are clearly groups of people who are good at one and very bad at the other. I'd reckon that patterns like the OP are actually very simple and direct in comparison whereas picking up on changes in human emotion is very complicated and there isn't actually a correct answer just lots of signs that point to an answer which is usually correct if that makes sense.

He asked a question and you didn't try to answer it but instead told him how important it was that you could do the puzzle. That's funny to me.

So in my post that I start with saying I might have misunderstood it turns out I have misunderstood?

edit - As you may have missed the pattern I was attempting to say that pattern solving can be used for all sorts of things, literally anything there is a pattern in. Then wuf pointed out something which I had actually lumped together and we got further along in talking about a topic.

[Poopadoop]

As you may have missed the pattern I was attempting to say that pattern solving can be used for all sorts of things, literally anything there is a pattern in. Then wuf pointed out something which I had actually lumped together and we got further along in talking about a topic.

Hahaha. Maybe you have trouble with language then. If someone asks you a question like 'how many different types of cheese are there?' the answer usually is a number possibly with an explanation. It's not 'I'm an expert on cheddar and that's really a valuable skill to have'.

[wufwugy]

Hahaha. Maybe you have trouble with language then. If someone asks you a question like 'how many different types of cheese are there?' the answer usually is a number possibly with an explanation. It's not 'I'm an expert on cheddar and that's really a valuable skill to have'.

Donald?

[Poopadoop]

Donald?

I think Savy read his book

[Savy]

Hahaha. Maybe you have trouble with language then. If someone asks you a question like 'how many different types of cheese are there?' the answer usually is a number possibly with an explanation. It's not 'I'm an expert on cheddar and that's really a valuable skill to have'.

Or you know it isn't something that I thought could be answered by saying there are x amount of cheeses. Is solving patterns in shapes that different to solving patterns with letters? At what point does something become a type of pattern? The point I was more getting at was that pattern recognition in a test like the one in OP is the same as being able to spot patterns in trends for things like productivity of workers at certain times of the day and getting an idea of why this happens. Hence lumping them all together. Then wuf made a good point and made me reconsider what I was saying.

Unless you took my post about being a genius seriously I also don't see why you think I'm an expert in pattern recognition or anything like that. I clearly have no skills of any real value.

What does constitute a different type of cheese?

[Poopadoop]

I'm just razzing you. Forget about it.

[Savy]

I'm just razzing you. Forget about it.

I genuinely want to know how many types of cheese there are and how you go about defining them.

[Poopadoop]

I'm wondering about the different categories of pattern types. Say somebody in a social situation goes from calm to upset for non-obvious reasons. I'm generally good at recognizing the patterns that can help explain why. What I'm not good at is recognizing the kinds of patterns relevant for the example in the OP.

I think that would fall under social intelligence. Probably not the same.